March 06, 2004

Sympathy for the Devil

Terry Teachout, today, says
that "it’s usually not that hard to pick a One Best—absolute
excellence is by definition self-evident". He goes on to give examples:
"The greatest opera ever written," he says, "is The Marriage
of Figaro". To which my immediate reaction is "That's not the
greatest opera ever written – it's not even the greatest opera ever written
by Mozart!"

Upon reflection, however, I think that Terry might have stumbled across yet
another instance of the age-old Apollonian/Dionysian distinction. Most people
think of this as the Beatles vs the Stones, but there are definitely advantages
to using a single artist rather than two very different ones in order to force
people into one camp rather than the other. Here's my theory, then: if you prefer
Figaro to Don Giovanni, you're Apollonian; if you prefer Don
Giovanni to Figaro, you're Dionysian.

Listening to Beatles and Rolling Stones music is ecstatic, the difference lies in that one is quietly ecstatic, while the other is noisily ecstatic. Compare Paul McCartney's Helter Skelter with Richard & Jagger's Lady Jane sometime.

In the movie "I Met Happy Little Gypies" my fathers movie; Aleksandar Petrovic 1967 I won best supporting actress, Cannes Film Festival. There are THREE Tisa; the part I played was the Happy singing and dancing Tisa. I am not the love role Tisa. Movies always use three to five women who look alike. I was my mother; Audrey Hepburn double for closeup work and distance work. I am 24 years younger than her and 30 pounds lighter. It hard to notice I am also 6 inches shorter than her in a distance. The starring male role is my brother.

Posted by: Beatrine Caroline Hapsberg on March 11, 2004 12:36 AM

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Princess Diana did movies before she married Charles. There are seven Diana's. They all look like each other. Ask at the French Rivera and Northern Italy they know her. They know Princess Caroline Rainer and others. Ask what kind of movies they did. Bee